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THE COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH OF SOUTHALL, 1944.
Members of the Public Health Committee (which also functions as a Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee) are denoted by an asterisk.
HIS WORSHIP THE MAYOR
COUNCILLOR J. M. STURGEON, J.P.
Deputy Mayor:
*Alderman D. C. Neighbour, J.P.
Aldermen:
*Gardner, F. E. Hamblin, E. B. *Pargiter, G. A. *Smith, F. G.
Councillors:
*Amos, Mrs. F. S. (Chairman of
Public Health Committee)
Bill, H. R.
Braine, E. W. H.
*Cox, E. W.
Dane, A. T.
Davies, R. L.
*Douglas, H. C.
Harris, G.
Hill, J.
Hopkins, W. H.
*Hutchings, C.
*Kimberley, T.
*Lewis, J. F.
*Lowe, J.
Luckett, F. H.
Lye, A. E.
*Marks, F. J.
*Knott, Mrs. A.
Saxon, J. A.
Sturgeon, J. M.
Tunbridge, F. J.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the
Borough of Southall.
MR. MAYOR, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
I have the honour to present the forty-eighth Annual Report on the health and
sanitary circumstances of the district. 1944 was the year of V.i and V.2 activity, when
Southall was first declared an evacuation area. The difficulties caused by enemy activity
were immense and included the deterioration of living conditions of the people because
of the increased, and for Southall the first substantial, use of the air raid shelters, also the
nervous strain would have a deleterious effect on the health and resistance of many.
It is the more gratifying, therefore, to be able to report once again that the general
health of Southall's population continued to be good. A substantial fall in the death rate,
fewer deaths from tuberculosis, a rising birth rate following on a continuous birth rate
increase every year since 1941, and a decrease in infant mortality are noteworthy in a year
of tension, shelter living, displacement of individuals and continued shortage of food and
coal.
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